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one-half line long, throat one to two and one-half lines, funnel- 

 form, lobes three lines long, obovate, tube white, throat yellow, 

 lobes white with two dark lines at the base of each; stamens 

 inserted at the top of the tube, one exceeding the rest but the 

 longest only one-half the throat, anthers oblong. 



Type from San Antonio Mts., Southern California, 6000 feet 

 altitude, H. M. Hall. Elysian Park, Los Angeles Co., Mr. and 

 Mrs. Grout. 



16. Linanthus aureus Greene. Gilia aurea Nutt. 



Annual, three to six inches high,, diffusely branching, stems 

 filiform, nearly glabrous, foliage scabrous-pubescent; leaves three- 

 to five-parted, divisions about two lines long, rather thick, cus- 

 pidate; flowers from one to several from a leaf axil, on pedicels 

 varying from one line to one inch; flowers four to six lines long; 

 calyx three to four lines, herbaceous ribs broad, hyaline portion 

 between narrow, tube narrow-funnelform, lobes somewhat 

 spreading; corolla with tube one line or less long, constricted at 

 the top, throat funnelform, two lines long, a dark reddish band 

 on the lower half of the throat and the upper part of the tube, 

 lobes two to two and one-half lines long, obovate, bright golden- 

 yellow; filaments inserted just below the sinuses, hardly one-half 

 line long, anthers oblong; style filamentous, stigmas equalling 

 the corolla lobes. 



Darwin Mesa, Inyo Co. Mojave Desert, San Bernardino Co., 

 and Arizona. Type locality "Santa Barbara" (Ace. to Bot. 

 Death Valley). 



17. Linanthus Nuttallii Greene in herb. Gilia Nuttallii Gray. 



Woody-stemmed perennial, about one span high, profusely 

 branching from the base; foliage and stems puberulent to nearly 

 glabrous; leaves three- to five-parted to the base, lower entire, 

 these and the segments spatulate, lax, acute, curving upward if at 

 all; inflorescence in axillary and terminal clusters; flowers short - 

 pediceled or subsessile; calyx four and one-half lines long, 

 cylindrical, mostly herbaceous, lobes about equalling the tube; 

 narrow-lanceolate; corolla about nine lines long, tube equalling 

 or slightly exceeding the calyx, externally pubescent, throat one 



